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Roy Buchanan

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Arkansas, USA

Genre
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Blues

Style
Blues

Mood
Smooth

Born

1939

Active
1955 to 1988

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Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
After Hours	43,462	3 users
Chicago Smokeshop	40,810	3 users
Sweet Dreams	209,492	3 users
The Messiah Will Come Again	85,588	3 users
When a Guitar Plays the Blues	61,876	3 users

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Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still considered a highly influential guitar player. Guitar Player praised him as having one of the "50 Greatest Tones of all Time."

Buchanan has influenced many guitarists, including Gary Moore, Danny Gatton, and Jeff Beck; Beck dedicated his version of "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" from Blow by Blow to him. His work is said to "stretch the limits of the electric guitar," and he is praised for "his subtlety of tone and the breadth of his knowledge, from the blackest of blues to moaning R&B and clean, concise, bone-deep rock 'n' roll."

In 2004, Guitar Player listed his version of "Sweet Dreams," from his debut album on Polydor, Roy Buchanan, as having one of the "50 Greatest Tones of All Time." In the same year, the readers of Guitar Player voted Buchanan #46 in a top 50 readers' poll.